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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7079]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Cato -Marcus Antonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind und Well spielen  Ball mit dem Menschen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it because we love it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it because we love it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26007]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the flitting guest   Need never hunger more.    But while the loitering idler waits     Good luck beside his fire,      The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,       And conquers its desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best policy is to declare victory and leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best policy is to declare victory and leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed by the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm,  But for my hand, as unattempted yet,   Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.    Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail     And say there is no sin but to be rich;      And being rich, my virtue then shall be       To say there is no vice but beggary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12926]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above our life we love a steadfast friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above our life we love a steadfast friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't even sure we were going to be here but to have the medals around our necks is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't even sure we were going to be here but to have the medals around our necks is just amazing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor slide into his veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27594]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've told it so many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've told it so many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a call out to the community and surrounding areas to let them know about the situation we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41495]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a call out to the community and surrounding areas to let them know about the situation we are in to stay open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11727]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53075]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44962]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44962</guid></item></channel></rss>